...LBJ: doubles and disinformation Garrick Alder Lobster readers will be aware of the relationship between US President Lyndon Johnson and his alleged personal hitman Malcolm 'Mac' Wallace, who is linked by forensic evidence to the assassination of JFK. This article explores some of the circumstances of another convicted murderer with alleged links to the Kennedy assassination, the late John Liggett. One episode of Nigel Turner's much-slated TV documentary series, 'The Men Who Killed Kennedy', broadcast in 2003, featured an interview with 'Lois', the pseudonymous former wife of Dallas funeral technician John M Liggett. In the programme as aired, the former Mrs Liggett related how her husband had been called away from a funeral ...

... The Man Who Killed Kennedy The Case Against LBJ Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro New York: Skyhorse, $24.95 (US), h/b I was wondering how to review this when I received a press release from Stone about it, listing what he thought were the important points in it. Let's have a look at these. 'By late November, 1963, the Kennedys were within days of politically executing and personally destroying Lyndon Johnson via a two track program: 1) a devastating RFK-fed LIFE Magazine expose of LBJ's astounding corruption and 2) an RFK-nurtured Senate Rules Committee investigation into LBJ's habit of taking large bribes and kickbacks.’ This is true and has been discussed in ...

... Estes, LBJ and Dallas Robin Ramsay A mong the Kennedy assassination buffs there is little public interest in the thesis that the network of vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson did the dirty deed. Of the major researchers only Larry Hancock has done any work on it.1 The only critique I have seen so far is Vasilios Vazakas with Seamus Coogan and Phil Dragoo, 'Evaluating the Case against Lyndon Johnson '.2 They point out that the handful books proposing the thesis are not very good (I've read two of them and I agree about one but not the other) and that the evidence in the shape of testimony comes mostly from unreliable witnesses: Loy Factor, Billie Sol Estes, Barr McClennan ...

... 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate Robert Caro New York and London: Alfred Knopf, 2002, hb $35 (US) £35 (UK) (But in the UK only £22 from Amazon.com) This is the third volume in Caro's biography of LBJ. The first two volumes are wonderful pieces of work, the best biographies I have read; and in many ways this is their equal and deserves the praise it has received. Even if we ignore the story of LBJ, this contains an account of the workings of the US Senate in the 1950s and the mechanics of legislative politics ...

... a Texas-based aerospace company. There are, however, significant questions which remain unanswered. LBJ's lawyer, John Cofer, worked on Wallace's defence; and it is clear that Wallace got his security clearance over the objections of the security people. Presumably, though not demonstrably, this influence was coming from (the then) Senator Johnson. Why LBJ was doing all this for Wallace is unexplained. There is little on the Wallace-Johnson relationship: one suggestion from a journalist who was researching LBJ in the sixties that Wallace was some kind of fixer/fund-raiser for Johnson in Texas; and almost nothing on Wallace's putative career as a manager in the aerospace industry in Texas-based companies which benefited from ...

... JFK's assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir Robin Ramsay LBJ: the mastermind of JFK's assassination Phillip F. Nelson Xlibris 2010 ISBN 978-1-4535-0301-0 Available from Amazon.co.uk for a little over £12 plus postage. T his a 700 page, self-published synthesis of the recent Kennedy assassination literature, inside which is about 100 pages relevant to the book's title. It's a pity the author simply didn't publish those 100 pages, because they contain a good account of LBJ's corruption; the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes cases; the inquiries into both; how they were blocked and derailed; and the extant evidence suggesting, as I currently believe, that those threats to LBJ's political ...

... to research some of Wallace's career through Texas newspapers. Wallace, who died in a one car crash in 1971, had been convicted of murder in 1951 (5) and was suspected of the murder of others involved in the Billy Sol Estes scandal in Texas in 1960-62. Estes was a con-man who had been bribing Texas politicians, including LBJ, and when his fraudulent scheme began to unravel, the federal investigator on his trail and three potential witnesses were 'suicided', apparently by Wallace. (6) In 1984 Billy Sol Estes had his lawyer contact the Federal Justice Department and offered to talk about the role of LBJ and Wallace in eight murders, one of them JFK's ...

... ) Summer 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 47 Power Beyond Reason: The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson D. Jablow Hershman New Jersey: Barricade, 2002, $27.95 Colin Challen MP I tend to the view, presented succinctly in Who Shot JFK?, (10) that whoever assassinated Kennedy did so with the objective of installing LBJ as President. The tantalising question that arises is: did LBJ know? This book does not answer that question, but it does address issues about LBJ's mental state which make it feasible that he could have gone along with such a plan. (11) Hershman traces LBJ's mental history from childhood and finds him a serious manic depressive ...

... communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK's plans to do a deal with Castro. This is terribly plausible, a good hypothesis, and Hancock handles the immensely detailed material very well; but the basic problem remains: the trails all peter out as we arrive at Dealey Plaza. In the next section he shows how LBJ, the incoming president, organised the cover-up, heading-off attempts to get a real investigation. This ground is not nearly so well ploughed and this section is very useful indeed. (5 )But this raises what Hancock calls 'a very uncomfortable question...Is there any possible way in which the vice-President of the United States could ...

... service in WW2 and by the time he was talking he was old and ill. (He is now dead.) How much of what he said should be taken seriously? (6) No-one shooting from the front is mentioned by him. He places Jack Ruby at meetings to set-up the shooting, but no evidence linking Ruby and LBJ exists. (7) Factor's 'confession' looked like more confession nonsense (8 )because his account of the shooting placed him, 'Mac' Wallace and Oswald on the 6th floor of the Book Depository; and it had become an article of faith among the Warren Commission critics that if anyone was firing from the 6th floor, it ...